Publications

In honour of Aaron Swartz who wanted academic information to be free for everyone – we share our academic papers. All we ask is that you reference them when used and contact us if you need more information:

This paper describes the emergence of proprietary stormwater treatment devices and their capacity to remove dissolved nitrogen from flows. It questions if best practice stormwater treatment targets also need to include dissolved nitrogen.

This is a copy of a presentation delivered at the 2014 Stormwater NSW and ACT joint conferences in Canberra. It includes results of research by Dunphy and two field inspections to gauge the performance of a grassy bioretention system designed and built in 2003. The system was investigated in 2005 and again in 2014. It is now over 14 years old, has been maintained rarely and performs amazingly well.

This paper describes how too frequently expensive stormwater assets in NSW are not adopted by Council asset teams. It looks at the UK for guidance and discusses benefits of the establishment of a unified adoption guideline.

This paper describes how one might modify the green roof for Australian conditions by using part of the roof to collect water to sustain the green component of the roof. We explore this through a feasibility study which finds that it is possible to grow food on top of a large shed at a commercial scale at a profit.

The Ashgrove in Regents Park development in western Sydney differs to most because private open space is limited and a body corporate manages both substantial communal open space and the integrated water cycle management system that shapes it.